Resources

Listed below are links to the websites of other photography clubs, camera equipment retailers, bloggers, providers of tutorials and advice that members of West Haddon Photo Club (and other photographers) may find useful.

 

Please note that inclusion on the list does not mean endorsement by West Haddon Photo Club.

Where to Take Photos

Northamptonshire is one of the most photogenic counties in the UK. To help you make the most of it have a look on the Things To Do In Northamptonshire website for plenty of ideas for where to go and take photos.

There's plenty going on throughout the year in our area and the list below is to give you some ideas for photo opportunities. This isn't exhaustive by any means and we'll add to it over time.

Developing Your Photography - Advice, Guidance & Blogs

  • Charlotte Bellamy Photography - Guidance to improve your photography through workshops, tours (via Light and Land) and mentoring Charlotte also offers an ebook 'How to Spot Image Opportunities' that you can download from her website.

  • Justin Minns - An award-winning landscape photographer who offers workshops and who has presented talks to our club. He offers prints and photo guide books of Suffolk, Norfolk and East Anglia.

  • Alan Ranger - A Warwickshire-based photographer offering tuition, guidance and workshops, notably ones photographing bluebells. Alan is making available a free, online photography course.

Camera Equipment Retailers

  • Skears Photographic - A local camera retailer based in Northampton and sponsor of our Photo Shows.

Photography News & Media

Imaging & Editing Software

  • darktable - A powerful, sophisticated and free alternative to Adobe Lightroom. Help, in the form of a user manual, FAQs and tutorials, is available on darktable's Resources page.

  • Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop - arguably the industry standard. Powerful, capable software but Lightroom and Photoshop are only available on a subscription basis. Photoshop Elements can be bought outright.

  • Affinity - feature-packed and cheap - works on PCs, Macs and iPads.

  • Canon Digital Photo Professional - supplied free for use with Canon cameras.

  • Capture One - rivals Adobe for its features and valued within the photo industry for its superior RAW processing.

  • Corel Paintshop Pro - one of the earliest photo imaging editors, cheap and cheerful.

  • DxO PhotoLab - from the company that supplies Nik Collection editing software.

  • Exposure - similar range of cataloguing and non-destructive editing as Lightroom.

  • Nikon NX Studio- supplied free for use with Nikon cameras.

  • ON1 Photo RAW - similar range of cataloguing and non-destructive editing as Lightroom.

  • Skylum Luminar Neo - AI-powered software to help simplify the editing process.

  • GIMP - A free, open source image editor with similar capabilities to Photoshop.